Dive at The Monument, Kurnell, NSW on 13/1/13

Dive at The Monument, Kurnell, NSW on 13/1/13 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

13 January, 2013

Time

11:03am - 12:12pm

Details

Entered at The Monument is search of three seahorses we'd previously seen when swimming down from The Steps. We knew they'd be almost directly out from the entry point but we just missed the spot. We thought we were north of the spot and started to swim towards The Steps but couldn't find it. We did find a couple of weedy seadragons, a cuttlefish and a bubble shell. We swam back against the outgoing tide and managed to find it only some 20 metres north of where we'd first looked. We found "Lisa" and "Kimi" but no other males were visible. On the side of their rock, Sheree found a cowrie just like the one we've seen regularly at The Leap.

We exited at the entry point at The Monument, playing close attention to the relationship between the entry point at the location of the rock with the seahorses. We should be able to find it much more easily next time.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5-8 metres

Duration

69 minutes

Maximum depth

13.1 m

Average depth

11.0 m

Water temperature

18.4°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.

Low

3:45am

0.30m

High

10:15am

1.99m

Low

4:52pm

0.12m

High

9:51pm

1.48m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

Lens port

Ikelite Flat Port 5502.41

Strobe

2 x Ikelite SubStrobe DS161

Photographs

Depth information, where present, indicates the depth of the camera when the photograph was taken and can be used to approximate the depth of the subject.